Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange: a valuable diamond.
- adj. Of great importance, use, or service: valuable information; valuable advice.
- adj. Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics: a valuable friend.
- n. A personal possession, such as a piece of jewelry, having a relatively high monetary value. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being valued; capable of having the value measured or estimated.
- Of great value or price; having financial worth; representing a large market value: as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable house.
- Of great moral worth, utility, or importance; precious; worthy; estimable; deserving esteem: as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.
- n. A thing, especially a small thing, of value; a choice article of personal property; any piece of precious merchandise, usually of small bulk: generally in the plural.
Wiktionary
- adj. having a great value.
- n. a personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value; — usually used in plural form.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly.
- adj. Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem
- n. A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange
- n. something of value
- adj. having worth or merit or value
Etymologies
- value + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And I am not strictly opposed to a player on a non-contender winning the award, which has happened on occasion think Alex Rodriguez of the last-place Rangers in 2003 although I admit that's a tougher one for me since the word valuable suggests that the players' achievements did not go for naught and actually helped a team play into October.”
“The criteria for the major leagues' MVP awards, voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, are fluid, depending largely on a voter's definition of the word "valuable.”
“The U.S. military says he was seized two weeks ago and has been providing what they describe as valuable information about the group's inter-workings.”
“They say it takes away from what they described as valuable work they could be doing in their home districts.”
“I must confess," says Lien Chi Altangi, "a curiosity to know what you call a valuable stock, which can only bear a winter perusal.”
“The word 'valuable' is the whole thing," Johnson said.”
“Judge Judy then proceeded to explain what she called a valuable life lesson.”
“And how valuable is a degree in Post-Colonial Studies compared to one in Sports Management or General Studies?”
“Scratch the surface of most successful entrepreneurs, and you'll find at least one significant "failure" that they've used to gain valuable experience.”
“After a sit-down with Polian and Dungy's designated successor, Jim Caldwell, Manning said he felt comfortable that Moore and Mudd would return in valuable roles for training camp.”
Manning's mantra for '09 Colts: 'You better be getting better'
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Mis-abled
Words of the form "X-able" which do not mean "able to be Xed".
comfortable, valuable, profitable, knowledgeable, table, sable, durable
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synantonyms
Words that should be antonyms, but aren't.
Some say pseudantonym, but I don't like to.ravel, unravel, flammable, inflammable, thaw, unthaw, worm, deworm, color, discolor, valuable, invaluable and 12 more...
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